Sony is offering summer discounts on the latest version of its game console in certain countries. According to The Verge, it is currently possible to buy the PlayStation 5 with unprecedented discounts in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany or India. In Germany the discounted price is reduced by 16%. In the UK, the PS5 is now £80 (£399) less, until 10 August.
In Germany, the usual price of the console is 549 euros. In stores like Amazon it can be purchased for these days at 459.99 euros, minus 90 euros, in a promotion that runs until August 7.
In Portugal, Sony recalls that an identical campaign ran between 1 and 15 July, which allowed the console to be purchased with a €100 discount, both at the usual points of sale and via PlayStation Direct. At the moment, the console is on sale at the usual price of €549.99, both on the brand's website and at major retailers and there is no date for a new campaign.
With regard to software, the Summer Promotions campaign is taking place on PlayStation Store. As Sony explains, the first wave started on July 19th and runs until August 16th. “Next week more titles will be announced in promotion, with the second wave of the campaign”, adds an official company source.
Meanwhile, the brand announced that it has already sold 40 million PS5 units, even with the impact of the “unprecedented challenges of Covid” and the resulting constraints for supply chains.
It is recalled that Sony reached the mark of 10 million PS5 units sold in 2021. Two years later it managed to quadruple that number. The data released by the company also show that between last year and this year, the pace of units shipped to stores increased significantly.
Until March last year, 2 million PS5 units had been shipped by the brand. This year, also in the first quarter, that number increased to 6.3 million units.
In a statement regarding the achievement of this new milestone, the CEO of Sony, Jim Ryan, guarantees that the problems with the supply of components are finally resolved and that the brand is now able to respond to all requests.
An update to the PS5 is expected soon, which may or may not be a Slim version of Sony's game console. There have been rumors about the subject. The information disclosed by the company in court, in the hearings on the purchase of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft, have also been scrutinized to try to find out details of what the brand may be preparing.
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